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Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 6

CaptainWacky

CaptainWacky

I want to smell dark matter
Prepare your queues! Star Wars: The Clone Wars is coming to Netflix March 7th for the U.S. and Canada, including the 13 episodes of The Lost Missions of season six.
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Hey, I don't live in the U.S. or Canada! But I'm sure some kind person will make them available through OTHER MEANS (torrents, I mean torrents.)
 
Now that the episodes are "out" on Netflix and elsewhere I started watching them. Unfortunately the versions available outside the US have their audio out of sync so I've only watch the first four episodes and wait for fixed versions to come out for the rest. Unless Netflix released them over here before then!!!!!

The first four episodes are the first story arc, and it's very good:
It's the "Order 66" arc, and it's probably one of the darkest thing the show has done? What with Fives being a good recurring character since season 1 it was sad to see him die, especially since we knew he was right and that his life was basically a lie. I wonder if they will use this as a way for Rex to avoid Order 66 by removing his chip. I liked that Shaak Ti got a lot of time because Shaak Ti is cool. I even liked the comic relief droid!

I want to watch the rest of the episodes now but I won't THANKS FOR NOTHING NETFLIX.
 
I was going to donwload them but then I saw the "audio out of sync" comments on some so I guess I'll wait for better quality illegal content. :(
 
I somehow always forget how good the animation looks so when I watch a new episode (nearly a year since I last watched one) I end up having to post "wow the animation looks really good." The Jedi Sisters were cool one off characters. I liked the stuff with Anakin, Rex and Fives working together, especially in light of what happened in episode 4...

The comedy droid was funny. "I have always wanted to feel human emotions. But I can't, goodbye!" And he can transform. Shaak Ti is elegant. I liked the Kaminoians being overtly evil. It's always been obvious that they're right shits.

So yeah everything in the fourth episode was great. I liked the clone bar and the drunk Republic Officers and the cab driver and everything. Palpatine was so fucking evil and Tim Curry did a good job. Then the ending. That was brilliantly done.
 
Episode 5 felt a bit uneventful in the first half, but it was still good. The snowboarding scene was an excellent action scene.

Episode 6 was great! It has often been said that they do the Anakin/Padme romance much better than the movies and it really showed here. Anakin is actually a good character (and a dick!) I liked his fight with Clovis. I liked Clovis' bacckstory about being adopted by Munn. And I loved that we saw Anakin's bedroom and that he had a Podracing poster with Ratts Tyerell and Ben Quadinaros and Sebulba on it.

Episode 7 was a strong conclusion. Once again Palpatine comes out on top (and it was good to hear Ian Abercrombie again as these episodes were orginally for season 5) and Clovis was a complex character rather than just a power mad evil guy. And Padme is hot.
 
Episodes 8 and 9 are what would have happend if The Temple Of Doom had starred Mace Windu and Jar Jar Binks. It was entertaining! Jar Jar is always much more watchable in animated form (which is weird because he was always animated!) and, while he did say "Master Win Mace" or whatever it was far too many times, he was enjoyable for most of the episodes. And he had sex. They literally put "Jar Jar had sex" into an episode of this series. Mace Windu throwing Jar Jar around with the Force and Jar Jar punching people was a good time. Is Mother Talzin dead now? Was she even alive? I don't know! She's crazy. Also I'm kind of sad this is probably the last time Ahmed Best will ever voice Jar Jar so let's show him some appreciation for his bombad performance.
 
I thought the last four episodes were all going to be about Yoda, but really the first of them is only loosely connected to the other two and Yoda isn't the central character. It was still very good! I like seeing Anakin and Obi-Wan doing detective stuff together. It was good seeing that one last time. We've seen a lot of Anakin/Obi-Wan versus Dooku duels over the years. But this was another really good one. And Dooku looked really strong here. It occrus to me that these final episodes have been great for Dooku. There was the moment where he made Padme shoot a guy just to annoy her. He's a great villain.

I know I keep saying things about the animation. But Coruscant looked really amazing in this arc. The scene where everyone was meditating with Yoda (not in the way Jar Jar meditates, thankfully) and we got a time lapse shot of Coruscant? That was great. Who would have ever imagined we'd get something like that back when the pliot movie came out and we were all complaining about Stink The Hutt (he was cute really.) It's great that they got Liam Neeson. Sure he was probably recording his lines over the phone and never talked to the other actors, but Liam Neeson saying anything is always going to sound pretty great. Yoda sees visions of everything. Like he sees Darth Sidious (did the Jedi know his name was Darth Sidious in the prequels? Does this scene explain how Yoda knew he name when he confronted him in his officer in Episode 3?) and Mace dying and everything. Does he see too much? I'll come back to that...

I was slightly worried when Yoda met the five spirit women. I didn't want it to end up like the Mortis episodes again, which were enjoyable and very pretty but ultimately kind of had a "it was all a dream" ending. But thankfully these episodes had a narrative and Yoda learned some important things and experienced actual character devlopment. He bounce around on mushrooms like he was in Mario Galaxy and it was fun. Then he thought a Dark Mirror Yoda and it was pretty great. Then the Ahsoka cameo. I'm glad she was in the episode in some way. Then the dream with Qui Gonn alive and Dooku still as a good guy and the genuinely creepy part with everyone else floating away as Dooku becomes evil again. Can the finale top this?

Yeah, I think it did. Mark Hamill. Actual Mark Hamill voicing Darth Bane. I loved how Bane looked a bit like the spidergarbage Darth Maul and a bit like Darth Vader and I don't think it was the literal Darth Bane because the spirit sisters said everything before Yoda went into the final room was all an illusion but I'll have to watch it again okay. Then it turns into Inception with Sidious and Dooku entering Yoda's dream. This frankly felt rushed and unlikely but fuck it we had another great Yoda/Sidious fight and Yoda getting serious hints that Anakin is going to go evil...then Yoda hearing his own last words "there is another Skywalker"...

So did Yoda learn too much? Maybe? I don't know, but the episodes worked anyway. Yoda had a line early on about how they were trapped in the Sith's game and had to keep playing it because doing nothing would mean destruction for all. As well as learning how to live on after death, the episodes were about Yoda learning through the Force that even if they can't overcome this Sith crisis ultimately they can win a larger victory, even if it means waiting another twenty years. Yoda always remembered "there is another Skywalker" because it gave him hope when all seemed lost. It's a bittersweet ending to the series, but what other possible ending could there be to a series about the Clone Wars when we knows what's coming next.
 
Some classic Anakin/Obi-Wan banter in the four "story reel" episodes.

Even with temporary animation General Grievous is still awesome.
 
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